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blobrana
11-04-2008, 04:23 PM
Award winning astronomy package Distant Suns written by Mike Smithwick of First Light Software is now available at the iTunes AppStore.
Distant Suns will turn your iPhone and iPod touch into a handheld planetarium.

Read more (http://www.gisuser.com/content/view/16014/2/)

cecilia
11-04-2008, 06:06 PM
wow , that's fantastic! Loved that program on my amiga!

drewz21
11-04-2008, 07:33 PM
One of my all time favorite Amiga programs. Thanks for the info as I've already purchased it and put it on my iPhone.

:-)

cecilia
11-04-2008, 08:03 PM
drewz21 wrote:
One of my all time favorite Amiga programs. Thanks for the info as I've already purchased it and put it on my iPhone.

:-)cool! how does it look??
is it possible to make screen shots?

is it easy to use?

blobrana
11-05-2008, 06:09 AM
Easy of use was on of the selling points of Distant Suns.

But here are two links to make it more complicated...

http://mobile.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=03534

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/10/31/iphone-captures-17th-century

cv643d
11-05-2008, 09:26 AM
Whats the difference between this and the Google space exploring thing (Google earth into space something)?

blobrana
11-05-2008, 11:46 AM
They are both essentially the same. But, Distant Suns is/was supported by the Amiga community.

www.distantsuns.com (http://www.distantsuns.com/)